From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V7 #192 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Thursday, September 19 2002 Volume 07 : Number 192 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Geek? ``So, you listen to much Dolby?" ["Andy Venables" ] Re: Alloy: Silent but still there-ish... [Chris Good ] Alloy: Testing ["JAMac" ] Alloy: YEAR 2000 ["Paulo" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 04:51:07 -0500 From: "Andy Venables" Subject: Alloy: Geek? ``So, you listen to much Dolby?" Howdo. I thought you might enjoy this page I found... http://www.nbtsc.org/chaz/dolby.html "The salient thread of his music... is slightly melodramatic soppiness" - LOL So anyway, why was I searching for those lyrics? Because I thought up a new way to fill idle moments. Mix up the lyrics between different verses. I verse-blended ILYGB into : I would never normally have a hair-lip On a friday morning's pride and joy But I like to come here as he cuffed me "I never busted", you took me But I will accept we stole a Datsun And drove all night to the Charity Ball But you better drive it in a big electric storm Into the Gulf of the bayou rain ... which maybe you'll agree started off quite well but just got silly. Maybe some of you will do far better :o) Not fascinating perhaps, but it passes the time. +AndyJ+ P.S. I tuned to BBC Radio 6 a few days back (Sky digital) and heard Hyperactive! being played, although the presenter wittered on over the ending far too early. Still, nice to hear it on one of the new digital-only stations. - -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 20:54:42 +1000 From: Paul Baily Subject: Re: Alloy: The Shipping Forcast > Indeed. I actually know people who listen to it last thing at night > because it > helps them relax. I should do it myself. > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/ukweather/shipping.shtml Finally had the chance to have a listen to it tonight. Beautiful! Y'know, call me old but even in this age of emails spanning TFE in seconds (e.g. my primary mail server is in some armageddon-proof installation in the states and it still responds quicker than my local ISP's mail server), I still get spun out by semi-live feeds like this from the other side of the globe. Having the misfortune of being a geek for a living I know a little of the mechanics and that it's no real magic (though still quite a feat) but subjectively it still gets me. I remember coaching my Dad (who's an avid aviation fanatic and plane spotter in case I've not mentioned it before) through getting set up to listen to an RA feed from some airport tower in the states which provided a 7x24 feed. Just listening to it amazed me, and not just because I'd heard the Australian version of such chatter in my brief stint of pilot training (STFU already, I'm trying to /land/ this thing!) when I was under delusions of becoming one. Oh, and you know the real beautiful irony? When I fired up RealOne Player and pointed it at the feed from the above site, the first thing it wanted to do was grab a codec... called DolbyNet! I kid you not! All I want to know is is this some webring I don't know about? ;-) hope you're well, Paul. This message still powered by the Shipping Forecast as at 0505 UT courtesy Radio 4 RA feed. With a quick chaser of Windpower/Thomas Dolby off Hyperactive. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 12:22:44 +0100 From: Chris Good Subject: Re: Alloy: Silent but still there-ish... on 14/9/02 7:38 AM, jonathan.d.chiddick@nokia.com at jonathan.d.chiddick@nokia.com wrote: > He asked is it you in the background with the nurse in the wheelchair > because you can't really tell? > What's the story behind that cover? > > Thomas: > the idea of me sort of watching. I said that if it is me in the same > timeframe then it won't make any sense, but if it was me looking back from > much later, then that would make sense; so the concept was me as an old man > being pushed by a nurse, and the nurse was his assistant. Interestingly Was Lene the nurse? > it and released it in the UK where there were a couple of singles off it; > 'Europa' and 'Radio Silence' then 'Airwaves', which were the three singles > that came out and they each had a video. Were Lene and Les in the 'Europa' video? I know Lene was in 'Radio Silence'. 'til the next time, Chris (Room 1 - Blue Hotel) - --- Blue Hotel's HOME on the Web - http://www.bluehotel.co.uk News - Reviews - Discography - Biography - Pix - Lyrics - Links - more ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:57:48 -0700 From: "Crackers" Subject: Re: Alloy: The Shipping Forcast What's really fun to do is listen to the shipping forcast while playing with the built-in effects processor on my soundcard. Now let's listen to the shipping forcast as read by Barry White... Now let's listen to the shipping forcast as read by N'xqt Zztnylk from Tau Ceti III. Now let's listen to the shipping forcast as read by Satan. Now let's listen to the shipping forcast as read by someone who has kidnapped your children and is demanding you pay them a hefty randsom. I just love that one of the presets on the soundcard is actually named "Kidnapper". "You will take 5 million in small, non-sequential unmarked bills and place them in a green dufflebag. Go to the corner of Bloor and Keele. There is a phonebooth there, enter it and wait for a call. Oh yes, and Cromarty Forth Tyne, north becoming variable 3 or 4. Mainly fair. Modorate or good." Crackers (Satan and the BBC from hell!!!!) Ghastly's Ghastly Comic http://ghastly.keenspace.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:56:18 -0700 From: "JAMac" Subject: Alloy: Testing Just a test. I've got two addresses and have been sending from one thinking it was the other. I think I've got it all straight now. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 21:13:56 -0300 From: "Paulo" Subject: Alloy: YEAR 2000 Hi Trevor. Year 2000 it's an early release... from 1981. The song was sang by Jane Kennaway. Thomas produced it. I think he also wrote the song and played keyboards on it. Unfortunately I don't have it and never heard it. I wonder if someone at Alloy has this single ??!! Although I have some "different" Thomas related stuff like Adele Bertei's Build Me A Bridge, Camera Club's album, Joan Armatrading's Walk Under Ladders etc... I am VERY FAR from having everything I would like to. There are probably more completists and lucky people here who has much more stuff than I do. Any info about Year 2000 or rare stuff ?? Anyway Trevor, check this http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Blagg&Norling" To: Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 6:08 PM Subject: Re: Alloy: EUROPA AND THE PIRATE BOX > > Nice Dream Paulo.... > > Trevor.... > > P.S. what's Year 2000? ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V7 #192 ***************************